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Also stopping by was John Oliver, who had just launched into a detailed recollection of his time at “The Daily Show” when Stewart suggested he wrap it up. Instead, Stewart presided over a loose, affectionate, energetic sendoff, a tribute to the man who has been the...

Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis met Stewart for Radio Times earlier this year, and said he was the man who “managed to teach me so much about my own journalistic profession, and has done it with an nearly reckless ease at his own brilliance”. WSJ senior editor Chris...

After nearly 16 years presenting The Daily Show, America’s number one satirist Jon Stewart bid farewell to the hit programme which has mercilessly mocked current affairs, politicians and the media.

Stewart first hosted the show in 1999 and it was his mocking of the following year’s election which made him a star and catapulted the show, broadcast on Comedy Central, into the national consciousness. “This show doesn’t deserve an even slightly restless host,...